Hochschild on Marriage

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The writer studies the work by Hochschild, following her argument that women must work much harder than men in order to achieve similar professional goals. The paper traces Hochschild's theories on how this struggle can affect marriages between two people who are working outside of the home, and the continuing effects on children of two working parents.

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"By averaging the time spent on work and home in studies of married working mothers from the 1960s and 1970s Hochschild shows that in the course of a year such women work "an extra month of twenty fours hours a day a year (3). Men in such marriages averaged only 17 minutes a day on household chores and childcare while women averaged 3 hours each day for these duties. Things had improved somewhat by the time of Hochschild's study but were still far from approaching equity as women continued to work the "second shift"--housework and childcare after a full day at their outside jobs."

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